If you were to ask me who the guy would be who appeared in the most giant action movies this summer, I would have never in a million years been able to call that person as Kelsey Grammar. Never.
It's actually kind of amazing. Sure, it seems natural that he was one of the people who filmed a surprise return in Bryan Singer's “X-Men: Days Of Future Past.” It was still a great moment in the theater, and when I sat down with Grammer during my time in Hong Kong for the press event for “Transformers: Age Of Extinction,” we ended up talking about it for a moment. In particular, I wanted to ask him about the way Nicolas Hoult has expanded our understanding of Hank as a character, and I thought his response was great.
He's also an Expendable, and even he seems well aware how strange that is. I understand why they would want to add Wesley Snipes or Antonio Banderas or Mel Gibson or Harrison Ford, but Grammer? Fascinating. I'm curious to see if he's a good guy or a bad guy, and how he fits into that ensemble. I have learned not to be too excited about how an “Expendables” movie will actually work, but I can still be curious to see how Grammer fits into the thing.
I was shocked to see he even appears in “Think Like A Man Too,” the not-surprising hit sequel. I mean, seriously… everything's coming up Grammer right now. His biggest role in any of them appears to be his role in “Transformers: Age Of Extinction,” which is the one I was there to speak to him about. Harold Attinger is a shadowy government dude who seems to have no problem selling out the Autobots or the human race, and Grammer plays him with a withering sense of condescending hatred to anyone in his way. It's a nice way into a fairly pat character, and I think that's just Grammer for you. He plays smart really well, and you add amoral to that mix, and it gets fun real fast.
“Transformers: Age Of Extinction” is in theaters on Friday.